Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the FAS and CTLA-4 genes of peripheral T-cell lymphomas

  • Irina Bonzheim*
  • , Eva Geissinger
  • , Wen Yu Chuang
  • , Sabine Roth
  • , Philipp Ströbel
  • , Alexander Marx
  • , Peter Reimer
  • , Martin Wilhelm
  • , Bernhard Puppe
  • , Andreas Rosenwald
  • , Hans Konrad Müller-Hermelink
  • , Thomas Rüdiger
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AILT) represents a subset of T-cell lymphomas but resembles an autoimmune disease in many of its clinical aspects. Despite the phenotype of effector T-cells and high expression of FAS and CTLA-4 receptor molecules, tumor cells fail to undergo apoptosis. We investigated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the FAS and CTLA-4 genes in 94 peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Although allelic frequencies of some FAS SNPs were enriched in AILT cases, none of these occurred at a different frequency compared to healthy individuals. Therefore, SNPs in these genes are not associated with the apoptotic defect and autoimmune phenomena in AILT.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11-21
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Hematopathology
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

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Keywords

  • Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
  • Apoptosis
  • Autoimmune diseases
  • CTLA-4
  • FAS
  • Single nucleotide polymorphism

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